The central defense of the Obama administration's handling of the Benghazi attacks last year is that they shouldn't be blamed for making so many inaccurate statements about it being a spontaneous protest against an insulting video rather than a premeditated terrorist...
Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, Thomas E. Ricks, meet David Sirota. Sirota, meet the other three people in the United States who regret the 40 years of conscription-free living Americans have enjoyed. Over at Salon, Sirota, a liberal author and...
It's pretty clear at this point that the Obama administration explicitly misrepresented what they knew to be the truth about the September 11, 2012 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. In...
Writing at Time magazine in response to an article by John McCain advocating US intervention in Syria, Zbigniew Brzezinski - not exactly a peacenik - argues that "the Syrian conflict is a sectarian war in a volatile region whose potential to spread and directly...
Our new Contributing Editor Lucy Steigerwald appared on HuffPost Live today to discuss the Obama administration's apparent embrace of an "an FBI plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance - laws that would make it easier to wiretap those who communicate using the...
The dispute between China and Japan over territorial claims to the Senkaku/Diaoyu island chains has become the front line in the Sino-Japanese realpolitik rivalry. But it is at least as much about the geo-political contest between the U.S. and China, with Japan as a...
Harold Koh, formerly the Obama administration's top State Department lawyer, has criticized the systematic secrecy surrounding the drone war. The New York Times: In a speech Tuesday at Oxford University, Harold H. Koh, a Yale law professor who as the State...
Writing in The New Yorker, Dexter Filkins runs through the Obama administration's reluctance to further intervene in Syria. There are many cons White House officials articulate, but here's two that stood out to me. Unintended Consequences Filkins quotes a senior White...
Much has been made of the Obama administration's decision to set up shop in Jordan under the pretense of containing the Syrian conflict and of training so-called moderate elements in the Syrian rebel opposition. That is the pretense that has so far been publicized in...
The September 18, 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), ostensibly a vehicle for the U.S. to go after the perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, DC., turns out to have been a whole hell of a lot more than that nearly 12...
